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  2. Self-governance - Wikipedia

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    Self-governance, self-government, self-sovereignty, or self-rule is the ability of a person or group to exercise all necessary functions of regulation without intervention from an external authority. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It may refer to personal conduct or to any form of institution , such as family units , social groups , affinity groups , legal ...

  3. Governance - Wikipedia

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    Governance is the overall complex system or framework of processes, functions, structures, rules, laws and norms born out of the relationships, interactions, power dynamics and communication within an organized group of individuals. It sets the boundaries of acceptable conduct and practices of different actors of the group and controls their ...

  4. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Rule by the wise; a system of governance in which decision making is in the hands of philosophers (as advocated by Plato) Plutocracy: Rule by the wealthy; a system wherein governance is indebted to, dependent upon or heavily influenced by the desires of the rich. Plutocratic influence can alter any form of government.

  5. Local government - Wikipedia

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    Egypt has a centralised system of local government officially called local administration as it is a branch of the Executive. [5] The country is divided into 27 governorates (محافظة muḥāfaẓah; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [moˈħɑfzˤɑ]; genitive case: muḥāfaẓat [moˈħɑfzˤet]; plural: محافظات muḥāfaẓāt [moħɑfˈzˤɑːt]), [6] the top tier of local ...

  6. Self-policing - Wikipedia

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    Self-policing is another term for self-governance, a group or community autonomously managing their own affairs. Self-policing may also refer to: Emotional self-regulation; Industry self-regulation; Self-control, in sociology / psychology; Self-regulatory organizations, in business and finance

  7. Self-determination - Wikipedia

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    Self-determination [1] refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law , binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of the ...

  8. Self-governing colony - Wikipedia

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    In Australasia, the term self-governing colony is widely used by historians and constitutional lawyers in relation to the political arrangements in the British settler colonies of Australasia — New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia — between 1852 and 1901, when the six colonies agreed to Federation and became a Dominion.

  9. Category:Self-governance - Wikipedia

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    Self-governance; 0–9. 1965 Cook Islands general election; B. Bantu Homelands Constitution Act, 1971; Borough (Pennsylvania) D. Dependent territory; Direct rule;